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MS Office Forum / General MS InfoPath Questions / September 2004Users not made to enter required fields before being able to save
I have several fields with 'Cannot be blank' selected in the properties. I am using Visual Studio, InfoPath SP1 and have a published fully trusted template. I have a Save button using XDocument.SaveAs that saves the XML file where I tell it to. How can I force the users to have to complete all required fields before being able to save? Add rules to your save button which checks the required fields and displays a dialog box if they are not filled out. Stop the remaining rules from processing if you had to display a dialog box. If you are using code, you can either perform these checks in code and display a dialog box with thisXDocument.UI.Alert("message"); or you can use the rules from above and set some flag in a secondary data source which the code will check before processing the save.  SignatureGreg Collins [InfoPath MVP] Please visit: http://www.InfoPathDev.com I have several fields with 'Cannot be blank' selected in the properties. I am using Visual Studio, InfoPath SP1 and have a published fully trusted template. I have a Save button using XDocument.SaveAs that saves the XML file where I tell it to. How can I force the users to have to complete all required fields before being able to save? Buttons do not seem to have rules for required fields like text fields. I didn't see it as an available action under Properties/Rule/Add Action. Am I missing anything? I wrote some VB.NET code. It is working well. Here is my code: If thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:location_code").text = "" Or thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:address").text = "" Or thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:tkn_by").text = "" Or thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:assigned_to").text = "" Or thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:date_taken").text = "" Then thisXDocument.UI.Alert("Please fill out all required fields in blue.") End If Thanks. Catherine Catherine. > Add rules to your save button which checks the required fields and displays a dialog box if they are not filled out. Stop the remaining rules from processing if you had to display a dialog box. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > where I tell it to. How can I force the users to have to complete all > required fields before being able to save? |
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